This analysis is done using “covdata” package in RStudio and the data used in the analysis is contained in the data sets; “covus”, “covus_ethnicity”, “uspop” and “nchs_wdc” . Through this analysis we are determined to get an understanding about how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted each state, each ethnicity group and each race living in The United States of America.
Figure 1: Heatmap of Cumulative Positive Cases, Cumulative Deaths and Cumulative Recoveries by State from 2020/01/13 to 2021/07/03
During the analysis to avoid the scale difference the counts have been recalculated as the natural logarithm values. In the above interactive heat map, the heat map corresponding to death counts indicates that the very first death in The USA have occurred on 24th February 2020 in Washington DC the capital of US. Throughout the time period considered in the study New York, New Jersey, California and Texas has reported high number of Cumulative deaths. According to the heat map of cumulative positive cases the very first positive case was recorded in Washington DC on 19th January 2020. However the other states has recorded cases with a lag of about one month according to this data set. We can observe that California, Georgia, Florida, New York and Texas have comparatively high counts of cumulative positive cases throughout the study period. The heat map of recoveries indicates that the total recoveries have increased in the latter part of the study period.